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106th CONGRESS
1st Session
House Report 56
Prohibiting the manufacture, sale, delivery,
or importation of buses that do not have seat belts.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 6, 1999
Mr. Ackerman introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on Commerce
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A BILL
Prohibiting the manufacture, sale, delivery, or importation of
buses that do not have seat belts.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. PROHIBITION.
No person shall manufacture, sell, deliver, or import any bus,
constructed after the effective date of this Act, for use by a
person described in section 2 to provide transportation service,
unless such bus is equipped with a seat belt for each passenger
riding in such bus.
SEC. 2. PERSONS TO WHICH PROHIBITION APPLIES.
The prohibition set forth in section 1 shall apply to-- (1) any
bus, including a school bus, designed to transport more than 15
passengers, including the driver; and (2) any Federal, State,
or local government entity, school district, or other public or
private entity providing transportation to passengers by bus.
SEC. 3. CIVIL PENALTIES; SECRETARY'S AUTHORITY TO COMPROMISE.
(a) Amount of Penalties.--Whoever violates any provision of this
Act, or any regulation issued thereunder, shall be subject to
a civil penalty not to exceed $1,000 for each such violation.
A violation with respect to each bus shall constitute a separate
violation, except that the maximum civil penalty shall not exceed
$800,000 for any related series of violations.
(b) Compromise of Penalties.--Any such civil penalty may be compromised
by the Secretary of Transportation. In determining the amount
of such penalty, or the amount agreed upon in compromise, the
appropriateness of such penalty to the size of the business of
the person charged and the gravity of the violation shall be considered.
SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.
This Act shall take effect 90 days after the date of its enactment.
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